Regenerative Agriculture (RA), is about farm practices that restore the natural state of the soil. As you know, industrial agriculture has the potential to deplete the soil of its natural richness, particularly through the practice of mono-cropping. To define it briefly, RA is about rebuilding the natural health of the soil through grazing and similar naturalistic farming practices.
Many working agriculture professionals are using methods that eventually deplete the soil because they have a fiduciary responsibility to produce at peak levels. But for those who like the idea of restoring the natural robustness of the soil in a way that is better for the environment as well as for the end-user – we have good news. Investors are looking into RA for its money-making potential, and they haven’t been disappointed. For the farmer, that means the very real possibility of using restorative farming practices without neglecting the people who depend on them.
In January of 2020, the Forbes Council affirmed their certainty that RA is indeed profitable. They reported on the results of a study by researchers at the Ecdysis Foundation. Their work shows that while crop yields from RA projects were down 29%, regenerative practices were 78% more profitable when compared to plots using conventional methods. Their study showed that with RA practices, agricultural installations put fewer resources into their plots and produced higher quality products. These higher quality products are inherently more valuable. Therefore, the result was a bigger profit margin.
